Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 21, 2010…Les Claypool and Primus are readying their first new album in 11 years.Vince Neil wants the world to know he thinks Sharon Osbourne is the most “evil, shittiest person” on Earth. Point taken.If Bono has learned anything from working…
Interesting couple of “shows” happening in the North Texas area tonight. Fans of classic rock, metal and bizarre performance art all have something to look forward to this evening…
Let it suffice to say that there are a lot of bands playing at Lochrann’s in Frisco as part of the inaugural two-stage Oysterfest deal going on up there this Saturday. We’d list them all, but, hey, the poster to the right takes care of that much for us.We will,…
As always, we do the YouTube too.It’s been a couple months since we served up a live performance video from out at El Sibil, but the release of lalagray’s Devil’s Nest earlier this month inspired us to get back in the game, if only intermittently for now.Pete’s called the album…
Dubstep producer and game-changer DJ Rusko, stopped by Dallas’ Lizard Lounge on a leg of U.S. tour dates (he’s on to Denver’s Ogden Theater next) to promote O.M.G! with DJ Titan. As usual, he managed to enthrall the pants off–literally in some cases–of the audience. Check out more Lizard Lounge…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, September 21, 2010…Kanye West is apparently getting his life and style advise from a Yale sophomore.Fancy yourself a bit of a bedroom remix producer? Well, Phoenix is gonna scratch your itch to remix, it are making stems from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix…
Got a bad case of the Mondays? Head to The Loft tonight…
It’s been a while since we’d heard anything on Denton’s Grassfight. A little over two years, even–since back when Dave Sims wrote this glowing piece on the then-new-to-the-scene outfit. And then, out of nowhere, we saw that the band on a bill at The Cavern this past weekend and then,…
Russell HobbsThis is the week that the Dallas Observer will release its annual Best Of issue, so it seems appropriate to open the vault and look back at a Best Of issue from September 2000. During this week 10 years ago, staff writer Jimmy Fowler shed light on Russell Hobbs’…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Amy Cook (Austin,…
Pixies, Fuck ButtonsVerizon TheatreSeptember 19, 2010Better than: listening to the stacks and stacks of albums from bands that claim the Pixies and Doolittle as an influence. The first thing you noticed was the crowd. And it was tough not to take note: The audience at the Verizon Theatre last night…
KISS, Daughtry, Pat Green, Drowning Pool, The Academy Is…, The Envy, RevengeancePizza Hut ParkSaturday, September 18, 2010(Way) better than: getting drunk and watching KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. Billed as “The Hottest Show on Earth,” the crowd that came out to Pizza Hut Park had plenty of space…
In Darryl Smyers Q&A with Tommy Thayer, who has played guitar in KISS since 2002, Thayer mentioned his weight-loss from the strain of the tall shoes and heat of the lights. Bottom line: it’s hard work to dress up like KISS. Clearly, fans don’t mind. This past Saturday, KISS headlined…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, September 20, 2010… Finally, Fleet Foxes finish up recording their second album. Will they hit the sophomore slump?Sacha Baron Cohen is about to get serious on your ass: The British comedian is set to play the late Freddie Mercury in a…
Harlem. Just your average pirate/cowboy/federale, rock bandThis weekend sees a pretty stacked list of local shows and touring shows alike, but the biggest of all is probably the extravaganza happening in Frisco on Saturday. As we mentioned yesterday, Kiss, Daughtry, Pat Green, The Academy Is…, and Dallas’ own Drowning Pool…
We’ve extolled the virtues of John Iskander and his Parade of Flesh booking company more than a few times in our pages, and deservedly so. Just take a gander at the calendar of shows he’s bringing to town in the next few months–impressive stuff, featuring performances from the likes of…
It’s a shame, really, that this show has to come on Sunday night. Seriously: If pretty much anyone else other than the Pixies were playing on Sunday, we’d be dragging our asses to The Loft, for sure. Instead, we’re just gonna be crossing our fingers and hoping that the show…
To be perfectly honest, we’d never heard of Arlington’s Mr. Kitty before catching him at the House of Blues on Tuesday night, where he put on an entertaining, nearly hour-long opening set for Crystal Castles. But it’s safe to say that he piqued our interest, what with his brash behavior,…
UK-bred, LA-based producer Rusko has had a busy year, what with being signed to Mad Decent, partaking in Diplo and Switch’s Major Lazer tour, and releasing his debut album O.M.G.! As such, the dubstep pioneer is taking the US electronic music scene by storm, showing absolutely no signs of slowing…
Chris Brown is back with a new hit? What the deuce is this?…
Tommy Thayer has played guitar in KISS since 2002, taking over for the departed Ace Frehley. Thayer was involved in various bands before, even gaining the notice of Gene Simmons when Thayer was playing in a KISS tribute band. Soon after, Simmons offered Thayer a job as his assistant. And,…
Shiner Rising Star CompetitionSeptember 16, 2010The Kessler TheatreThe lineup for last night’s wild card round for this year’s Shiner Rising Star competition provided a slight case of déjà vu. As has been the case in the competition’s previous years, a couple of bands that just missed winning the first time…
